PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Elliot Wakeam
AU  - Stan Feinberg
TI  - Surgeon unemployment: Would practice sharing be a viable solution?
AID  - 10.1503/cjs.014015
DP  - 2016 Apr 01
TA  - Canadian Journal of Surgery
PG  - 141--142
VI  - 59
IP  - 2
4099  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/59/2/141.short
4100  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/59/2/141.full
SO  - CAN J SURG2016 Apr 01; 59
AB  - Surgeon unemployment has become a crisis within Canadian surgery in recent years. Without dedicated governmental workforce planning, ensuring that new residency graduates can find employment will require new models of employment. Practice sharing, whereby a new graduate and a senior surgeon partner to divide their practices, allows the senior surgeon to wind down and the newer surgeon to ramp up. Importantly, this arrangement builds in formal mentoring, which is so important in the early years of starting a surgical practice. Practice sharing may be a solution for the workforce issues currently afflicting new surgical graduates across Canada.